In an International Affairs article earlier this year, Mary Martin and Taylor Owen point out that the term is all but dead, both in the UN system and within the governments who once championed the concept: "The term 'human security' has all but vanished from the...
The New York Times recently posted reports about the U.S. military's trial of soldiers accused of randomly killing civilians in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, “for sport.” Apart from the horrors...
Last week I participated in a workshop at the Al Jazeera Center for Studies in Doha, Qatar, which brought to an end the ESRC’s Radicalisation & Violence programme of research projects, led by Prof....
Two weeks ago, I wrote about Pennsylvania’s Perverted War on Terror. This week the state’s Homeland Security Director James Powers, Jr. resigned. Governor Ed Rendell had refused to fire him,...